[pkg-wpa-devel] problems with 0.5.5-1

[Brice Goglin]

Kel Modderman wrote:
> On Saturday 23 September 2006 00:06, Brice Goglin wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just tried wpasupplicant 0.5.5-1 from Debian unstable and got 2 problems:
>> * the wireless interface is not renamed by udev anymore
>>     
>
> How is this related to wpasupplicant?
>   

While my mail was being moderated on your mailing list, I have been
debugging more. The problem actually seems to be related to udev. I did
not upgrade udev and wpasupplicant at the same time, but for some reason
the problem appeared only after wpasupplicant's upgrade. The udev
problem is actually not 100% reproducible, so I guess I was lucky when I
downgraded wpasupplicant and got it to work with the latest udev.

I don't know why wpasupplicant/network-manager got broken by this "udev
not renaming anymore" (since I don't have any interface-name specific
configuration) and I don't know why network-manager would show the
wireless interface as a "wired" one. But after tweaking the udev rule to
workaround the possible udev problem, everything works fine with
wpasupplicant 0.5.5.


> You should first provide evidence that wpasupplicant is doing something it 
> should not be before filing a bug of RC severity.
>   

That's why I contacted you without filing a bug first :)

Sorry for the noise. In case you're interested by the udev problem
causing wpasupplicant/network-manager to not work anymore, see
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=389250

Brice